How quickly we (I) forget. Last Monday, July 21st, was the birthday of one of my all time favorite comedy actors, Don Knotts. He would have been 84 years old. In the midst of all the back and forth between SAG and the AMPTP and the internal bickering in SAG, it is easy to forget [...]

So, I did what any deep thinking actor would do…I hovered my pencil over the ballot and, in a ouija board like moment, I let the pencil decide on my vote. So don’t blame me, actors who support the AFTRA deal, my pencil said NO. Actually I spent time reading through the contract summary, spent [...]

Can it be that thirty something years have passed since I first walked through the doors of the Kalita Humphreys theater at the Dallas Theater Center, a nervous, totally green ‘actor’ straight out of Beaumont, Texas? It’s so hard to believe, but facts are facts and three decades have indeed since passed. How lucky I [...]

I’ve been playing with a lot of different video compression programs while trying to get the best quality video possible uploaded to the web. I’ve just uploaded, actually embeded a video file from a service called SplashCast. I uploaded a 69.2MB .mp4 file which their site compressed into a flash file. The resulting demo video [...]

Paul Scofield, a truly GREAT actor has died at the age of 86. Per Daily Variety: LONDON — Oscar-winning British thesp Paul Scofield died Wednesday of leukemia. He was 86. His agent Rosalind Chatto confirmed the legendary actor, who won the best actor Academy award in 1967 for his portrayal of Sir Thomas More in [...]

HEADSHOTS. The quest for the perfect headshot is never ending. One or more good headshots are probably the single most important marketing tools an actor, particularly a beginning actor, will have at his/her disposal. The importance of having a good headshot is hard to over emphasize. Even when you have the perfect shot, if you [...]

One of certainties of the professional actor’s life is that there are often long periods of time when one is NOT acting…at least not for a paycheck. But just because the actor is not employed, it doesn’t mean he/she can’t be ‘working’ at the actor’s craft. What are some non-acting pursuits we can use to [...]

I’ve spent part of this past weekend moving my blog over from a Google blogspot account to here at my own place on the web. There are some issues I’m still getting lined out but most everything has gone rather smoothly. The ‘trouble’ I’m having now is related to the ‘upload’ directory. I moved my [...]

Man, It’s been a long time since I’ve updated this blog. Life just kept getting in the way. [The BEST NEWS is that my wife, Jane remains cancer free and is doing just fine. Thanks for all the prayers and good wishes alond the way. Keep 'em coming.] But all is moving along rather smoothly…at [...]

Congratulations to Austin’s Rupert Reyes on the opening of this latest play, VECINOS, a production of his Teatro Vivo theater group. The Austin American Statesman has a very nice article today about Rupert and his important contributions to the Austin arts scene. Rupert is compiling an impressive body of work as he demonstrates that one [...]